Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 11:48:27 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Are we not rebuilding the packages with "fc6" names in Fedora 7? I did
>> ask FESCo but afaik no final decision was made. What about packages that
>> dist tags in the future releases?
> 
> No.  Rebuilding just to change dist tags is a completely silly operation. 

I think we just disagree on that. The value of rebuilding is more than 
just changing the dist tag. The fear against is exactly the reason why 
we should be doing it in the first place. Ensuring that they don't 
"accidentally" get new features during a security update after the 
release is a measure of quality.

  Our
> distribution releases do inherit from previous releases, the dist tag just 
> makes that point visually.

So one might have "fc6" packages in Fedora 8 and "fc7" packages on 
Fedora 10 too? You don't think that's "silly"?  Btw did FESCo even 
discuss this at all?

Rahul